For Release:
March 7, 2001 Radio City Entertainment and TNT Present AN ALL-STAR TRIBUTE TO BRIAN WILSON

Heart, Elton John, Aimee Mann & Michael Penn, Sir George Martin, Paul Simon, Matthew Sweet and Numerous Others to Join In, Tribute and Perform with Brian Wilson

Phil Ramone Set as Music Producer

Tickets for March 29 Concert at Radio City Music Hall On Sale Monday, March 12, at 10 a.m. Through Ticketmaster TNT to Premiere Concert Summer of 2001

Radio City Entertainment and Turner Network Television (TNT) will present AN ALL-STAR TRIBUTE TO BRIAN WILSON, it was announced today by Brian Diamond, senior vice president and executive producer, original programming and production, Radio City Entertainment, and Sandy Shapiro, vice president and
executive producer of TNT Specials. The concert event, part of the acclaimed TNT Masters Series, will feature legendary musician/songwriter Brian Wilson on the Great Stage at Radio City Music Hall, with major artists including Heart, Elton John, Aimee Mann & Michael Penn, Paul Simon and Matthew Sweet, with Sir George Martin and Dennis Hopper presenting special segments, among others to be announced. Phil Ramone is the music producer. Songs from Wilson's extensive body of work, including a start-to-finish performance of the celebrated masterpiece Pet Sounds, will be performed.

AN ALL-STAR TRIBUTE TO BRIAN WILSON will take place on Thursday, March 29, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and will be taped for a TNT premiere during the summer of 2001. Tickets for the live concert will be priced from $53.00 - $178.00 and will go on sale beginning Monday, March 12, at 10:00 a.m. through Ticketmaster 212-307-7171 or Ticketmaster on-line. Tickets will be available at the Radio City Music Hall box office starting Tuesday, March 13.

"The genius of Brian Wilson's legendary body of work makes him a natural subject for the TNT Masters Series spotlight," said Shapiro. "His recordings resonate throughout the world of music, and due to his groundbreaking
accomplishments as a composer, arranger and producer, he remains a major influence and inspiration to his peers, his contemporaries and today's most significant artists. This is a once in a lifetime event."

"With its storied past of legendary artists, the Music Hall is the perfect venue to honor Brian Wilson and his music," said Diamond. "Many of the artists who've graced our stage, attribute their influence and inspiration to Brian Wilson and his music. Radio City Entertainment is proud to partner with TNT in bringing together the biggest musical legends and the best in live television entertainment to celebrate the work of this unparalleled songwriter. "

Wilson is one of rock's most distinguished artists and influential pop composers of the last 50 years. Beginning in 1962, as the co-founder and creative force behind one of America's most beloved bands, the Beach Boys, Wilson was arranger, producer and co-writer of an incredible wave of records that included such hits as "California Girls," "Surfer Girl," "I Get Around," "In My Room," "Help Me Rhonda," "Wouldn't It Be Nice," "Fun, Fun, Fun," "Don't Worry Baby," "God Only Knows" and the never-duplicated 'pocket symphony' he called "Good Vibrations," just to name a few. In the 1960s, he became the first recording artist to take total control of his art, from song selection to choice of studio musicians, to finished product. Withdrawing from touring, in 1966 Wilson produced the much-celebrated Pet Sounds, an album that is still cited as one of the all-time great pop albums (recently listed third all-time by a VH1 poll of the greatest pop recordings). When Wilson followed-up with "Good Vibrations," his reputation as a modern-day Mozart was secured. In the years and decades since those heady commercial and creative times, Wilson has continued to create memorable music, writing songs such as "This Whole World," "Add Some Music To Your Day," "'Til I Die" and "Love & Mercy."

AN ALL-STAR TRIBUTE TO BRIAN WILSON is produced for TNT by Radio City Entertainment and Rachlin-Leaf Productions in association with Line By Line Productions. Brian Diamond is executive producer for Radio City
Entertainment; Sandy Shapiro is executive producer for TNT. David Leaf and Chip Rachlin are producers, Frank Garritano is co-producer. Bruce Gowers is director. Ali Gifford is talent producer. Tisha Fein is talent coordinator.
Darian Sahanaja is musical director.

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